O/T:- Favourite Opposition's Football Song/Chant

[jackal2]

Probably won't go down well this .......

The best I have known was 'Oh mist rolling in from the Trent' in the European Cup winning seasons across the river.

Oh well, I've said it now.

Forest fans do a decent line in songs, to be fair. The rendition of 'You've lost that loving feeling' to the opposition fans after Forest have scored is not without its humour.

[magpie_mania]

There is a story behind this revelation/confession and it needs telling. Fan of both teams m_m? Switched allegiances? Drunk, got lost and stumbled into the Temple of Sin?

Switched allegiance? No way
Drunk? No, don't drink
Got lost? No, I give the CG a wide berth now
Fan of both teams? No, but I don't hate them and hope they do well.
Reason - Forest supporting member of the family invited me, so I gave it a try.

[laddo]

Switched allegiance? No way
Drunk? No, don't drink
Got lost? No, I give the CG a wide berth now
Fan of both teams? No, but I don't hate them and hope they do well.
Reason - Forest supporting member of the family invited me, so I gave it a try.

It's a very good defence, and should surely reduce the sentence.

[Elite_Pie]

It's a very good defence, and should surely reduce the sentence.

I'd double it for the "I don't hate them and hope they do well" bit.

[Newish Pie]

Speaking as an Everton fan and someone with ears, 'You'll Never Walk Alone' is a tedious, saccharine dirge of a song, and even more so as a football song.

Incidentally, I hope you all realise how good the Wheelbarrow Song is? I reckon it would feature in the equivalent threads on other teams' forums. It's absolutely perfect... it's a song of triumph and disaster and having a wheelbarrow and no-one else sings it and makes no sense whatsoever and yet captures something fundamental about being a football fan in general and a County fan in particular. (See also: West Ham and 'Blowing Bubbles'). I kinda love the idea of someone from the club sitting down with new players and trying to explain the Wheelbarrow Song.

[Magpies1959]

I think the Wheelbarrow Song sums up the lot of being a Notts fan perfectly, and I am sure it would come near the top of the list, if this thread was on any other club's forum.

[SongBird]

It's about as unique as you can get, and I think that's the key thing.

Whether a song is made up like wheelbarrow, or adopted like YNWA, bubbles, keep right on etc the fans make it their own and part of the clubs identity.

Nothing wrong with the new songs everyone has version of, all part of the fun.

Originality provides the best anthems though I think. Pompey chimes, on the ball City, all sing together, are all part of the soul of their clubs, as the wheelbarrow is at Notts, I love it.

Do we have any other songs unique to us?

[laddo]

I'd double it for the "I don't hate them and hope they do well" bit.

[ncfcog]

Used to quite like Ring of Fire but would stick in my head for days after a game!

I used to really like the original Wheelbarrow Song that would last for several choruses before petering out. It meant if some parts of the crowd were picking it up later than other parts you still ended up with a crescendo of noise from everyone at the same time. Often now it starts and finishes at different times in different parts of the crowd making it more like a round of London’s Burning!

[upthemaggies]

My memory might be faulty on this, but as I recall it, the Wheelbarrow Song was effectively dropped by the Notts crowd within a few months of adopting it as a silly superstition ritual for as long as it took to secure promotion. Once we'd won the Play Off final, it had served its' purpose.

As we went into 1990/91 and the first few losses had killed off the Wheelbarrow as a lucky charm that had never previously failed to inspire a result, a few people would occasionally try and get it going again for old time's sake, like singing a song you'd leaned back in Junior school on a Comprehensive school playground just to be daft amongst yourselves, but you'd look stupid and probably get beaten up trying to sing it in front of the big kids who were now hanging around (the likes of Wolves, Leicester, Middlesbrough, Sheff Wed and Newcastle, who we were playing that season, as opposed to Shrewsbury, Crewe, Walsall and Tranmere).

Then the FA Cup run happened, which at that time was an excuse to party a bit and take things less seriously (the inflatables craze was largely associated with that competition). I'm guessing The Wheelbarrow might have enjoyed a revival at the 5-2 win at Hull in Round 3 (where we'd played the opening game of the season and won, with the song still working its' magic), it must have been sung v Man City because by the time we played Spurs in the QF, John Motson had picked up on it and mentioned it during the commentary and that was the point it became the club's terrace anthem. I think there was a realisation with that TV broadcast that "Oh, the football world has noticed we do this silly song and associates it with us, we'd better start doing this properly from now on."